Let’s be honest, why did week #3 feel like post-midterms week #6. . . I know for me part of this feeling comes from this writing project. I don’t want to come off as a complainer because I really have enjoyed analyzing genre and critically thinking about why genre and conventions are important. It is always good to take a step back and question things that have become habitual.
The hard part about this project is figuring out if I’m doing it right or wrong, I know I know there are no “rules” in writing but I find that I second guess myself on every… single…thing (yes, it’s exhausting.) This constant second guessing led me to rewrite a whole new essay. I absolutely hated the draft I turned in and after the disastrous feedback I got in peer/reader review I felt the needed to rewrite it.
Peer review was unsuccessful for because my group did not give me much feedback in the first place and the feedback I did get back was very generic overall it just felt very unauthentic. Some of the comments were helpful, they showed me there was confusion in my paper, they could not figure out what I was writing about. All these things made me want to restart my paper, which I did. Before restarting my essay I looked over our Journal 3.1 to get some inspiration from others as to what they were writing about. I really liked the party invitation idea, but I did not want to copy someone else’s idea so I stuck with Snickerdoodle recipes. My new draft seems a lot better than my old one, I am happier with it compared to the feeling I had the first time I wrote it. Hopefully peer review on Monday will go more smoothly and I will get some feedback that will enhance my paper rather than making me want to rip it to shreds.
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